noun
cutting down; sacrificing; throwing to the wolves
Figurative use: treating people as expendable, discarding them without hesitation. Often used in business or organizational contexts.
不採算部門の社員は簡単に切り捨てられた。
Employees in unprofitable divisions were simply thrown to the wolves.
Many employees became targets of cutting down in the restructuring.
noun
omission; rounding down; truncation
Used in calculation or data handling: dropping fractional parts or less significant digits. Contrasts with 切り上げ (rounding up).
See also: 切り上げ
小数点以下は切り捨てて整数で表示する。
Fractions after the decimal point are rounded down and displayed as integers.
この計算では端数を切り捨てにしている。
In this calculation, fractions are truncated.